Comprehensive Laboratory Environment

60-Days Lab Access

You have access to the lab for 60 days.
This period starts from the laboratory start date.

Instant Access to Course Materials

Access the course materials right after we receive your payment.
The end date of the course depends on the lab start date.

1 License

600.00 €

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5 Licenses

2,700.00 €

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discount: 10%

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10 Licenses

4,500.00 €

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discount: 25%

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Company benefits

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companies can create and manage accounts for their employees.
You can also assign different course licenses to specific employees.
Corporate customers can also get comprehensive license packages at a discount.

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Description

Discover the world of penetration testing.
Learn how to infiltrate networks and
take control of systems and applications.
Learn the difference between hacking
and penetration testing. Become a penetration tester.

Specialists in IT security are in demand like never before.
The threat of online attacks is getting worse by the day.
To protect themselves, companies need IT security experts
who can spot vulnerabilities in their IT systems and present these in a report.
To introduce you to the job of a penetration tester,
we offer the “Pentest 101“ online training course,
which is divided into different chapters and
is structured according to the way a pentest is conducted:

Introduction of Penetration Testing

Legal Basics

Hacking vs. Penetration Testing

Classification

Information Value of Penetration Tests

International Standards for Penetration Testing

Hacking I - Network Scanning

Hacking II - Password attacks

Hacking III - Web Applications

Hacking IV - Privilege Escalation

Hacking V - Tunneling Techniques

Hacking VI - Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit Framework

Demonstration of a Penetration Test

Risk Assessment

Report preparation

You will learn the same technical procedures used by malicious attackers
and get your hands on all the tools necessary to perform
professional penetration tests. Not only will you be able to identify
and exploit vulnerabilities in company networks and applications,
but you will also be able to impress your future clientele
with a reproducible approach and a final, structured report about your findings.

What makes our training unique:
we provide you with a fully-fledged laboratory environment –
the network of the fictitious
"Dubius Payment Ltd."

This lab environment is designed to practice and gain your first
hands-on experience and is the practical core of our course.
You can apply your newly learned skills in the lab and develop
and improve your skillset further. The laboratory is available
to you only and you do not have to share it with other participants.
You will get access to the lab for 60 days,
during which it is up to you to decide when you want to experiment.
The laboratory environment is available around the clock.
After getting your personal course license,
you can set the start date of the lab in our portal.

To make things as realistic as possible,
we paid special attention to crafting the employees of "Dubius Payment Ltd.".
In the lab environment, the employees are represented on
social networks and their relationships to each other are based upon
an intriguing background story.
Get enthralled by the mystery surrounding “Dubius Payment Ltd.”.

The course materials are divided into chapters.
Each chapter is followed by a small multiple-choice test
or an open self-check question. Depending on the topic of the chapter,
we explain the theoretical basics and
also refer to external (free) standard documents or
publications on the internet.
It is important to work on the contents on your own
in order to be able to implement them.
Basically, we give you the tools and fundamentals to work with.

At the latest after the chapter "Hacking I - scanning networks"
you will be able to take a first look at the network of “Dubius Payment Ltd.”.
The subsequent hacking chapters will introduce you to other types of attacks in theory,
which you can then try in the lab.
You will spend most of your course hours in the lab or the “Dubius Payment” network
and put the learned theory to practice.
You have access to this network for a total of 60 days.

No particular trainings or vocational qualifications are required
to participate in our online "Pentest Training" course.
However, the course is designed for persons who have in-depth theoretical
and practical experience in IT,
such as system administrators, software developers or
even computer science students who are about to graduate.
Prior knowledge in the following areas is mandatory:

It goes without saying that you must have a computer to perform
penetration tests at the network and application level.
This computer must run Linux (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, Kali Linux),
which you can also operate virtualised, e.g. with VirtualBox.
We recommend the following hardware:

min. 6GB of RAM

min. 20GB of free hard disk space

internet speed of 1 Mbps or more

To connect to our lab, you need the open source software “OpenVPN”.
If you use a firewall that restricts outgoing data traffic,
e.g. in a corporate network, you may need to enable (or have enabled)
the associated TCP port.
We will provide you with the port number together with the configuration file for your VPN.
For technical reasons, this is not the default port of OpenVPN.

Screenshots

Lab: Testing Custom API

Lab: Editing Code @ Wordpress

Lab: Reverse Shell @ Wiki

Portal: Our help system

FAQ

This course does not include a certificate exam, but you may take our
"Pentest Exam ".
As a registered user, you can buy the "Pentest Exam" bundled with our
"Pentest Training" and get a discount. Of course, you can also buy
them separately or just one of them.

Tests have shown that persons with good prior knowledge
must invest at least 40 hours in the course or the laboratory.
On average, we think that 60-80 hours is realistic.
We recommend spreading those hours over the 60
lab days and/or adapting it to your pace of learning.

University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (HDA) offers "Penetration Testing"
as a classroom event and as an online self-study session.
The course materials of the self-study online session are identical
to the course materials of our "Pentest Training".
Both use part of the laboratory network of the fictitious "Dubius Payment Ltd."
At the university, both courses are subject to a written exam.
binsec academy GmbH makes the course available free of charge to the participants
of the university event.
The corresponding user accounts on the portal are created by binsec academy GmbH
Prior registration as a student is not necessary and should be avoided.